Ida

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.

   That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity

   1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 16

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   "Ida!!!" "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos." Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".

   1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 127

   "Ida" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "Ida". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "Ida" with "I" - - -

   2002, Joyce Carol Oates, I'l Take You There, Fourth Estate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 18

plural Idas

1. A surname.

1. Greekhuman sciencesEither of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.

1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

1. abbreviationinitialismUNInitialism of International Development Association.

plural IDAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenutritionInitialism of iron deficiency anemia.
2. countableuncountableAn industrial development agency.